Messersmith, G.S., Berlin. Despatch No. 1596 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.

Enclosure: See No. 204. Summarizes present status of anti-Semitic movement in Germany; Dr. Achim Gorcke, racial expert in Ministry of Interior, defines non-Aryan as one who has even one Jewish grandparent; no alleviation in the situation of Jews in Germany; Hitler and Goebbels, of the higher Nazi leaders, remain adamant, and will not listen to views on the subject contrary to their own; racial offices established throughout Germany to compile racial records of all school children; law soon to be issued prohibiting marriage of German to Jews; persons of Jewish blood prohibited from holding any public office; laws planned to disfranchise Jews in preparation; Minister of Interior now has authority to deprive persons of citizenship without giving reason; among those who have lost citizenship in this manner are Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Georg Bernhard, and Philipp Scheidemann; almost no Jewish professors left in universities; position of Jewish physicians and lawyers becoming daily more difficult; physical persecution of Jews has abated somewhat, but isolated instances continue